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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
(a) Miles.
(b) Mucho.
(c) Metzger.
(d) Oedipa.

2. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?
(a) "I own shares in that."
(b) "I hate that product."
(c) "Inverarity's" or "big block of shares."
(d) "I know that actress" or "I turned that one down."

3. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?
(a) Buenos Aires.
(b) Acapulco.
(c) Mazatlan.
(d) Mexico City.

4. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?
(a) Swampy.
(b) Fan dance.
(c) Famous.
(d) Swanky.

5. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Have a drink.
(b) Call Inverarity's wife.
(c) Contact their lawyer.
(d) Go see her shrink.

6. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?
(a) A modern Cinderella.
(b) A Monet painting.
(c) A modern Rapunzel.
(d) A modern fairytale.

7. What kind of experiment does Dr. Hilarius want Oedipa to take part in?
(a) An experiment in which birth control drugs are given to housewives.
(b) An experiment in which vitamins are given to housewives.
(c) An experiment in which hallucinogenic drugs are given to housewives.
(d) An experiment in which hallucinogenic drugs are given to monkeys.

8. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?
(a) Mike Fallopian and his girlfriend.
(b) Mucho Maas.
(c) Richard Wharfinger.
(d) The Paranoids and their girlfriends.

9. What reaction does Oedipa have to what Inverarity said about her to Metzger?
(a) She begins to laugh.
(b) She slaps Metzger.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She kisses Metzger.

10. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?
(a) Mucho will quit his job.
(b) Mucho will be angry that she slept with Metzger.
(c) Mucho will commit adultery with a teenager.
(d) Mucho will join the circus.

11. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) Echo, the god of wind.
(b) A huge cavern in the side of a mountain.
(c) Athena, the goddess of love.
(d) A nymph holding a white blossom.

12. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?
(a) Walter.
(b) Wendell.
(c) Pierce.
(d) Perry.

13. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of strip Botticelli.
(b) A game of strip poker.
(c) A game of poker.
(d) A game of Botticelli cards.

14. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?
(a) To go off the medication.
(b) To find another "shrink."
(c) To go on medication.
(d) Not to leave her "shrink ."

15. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) Alternative.
(b) Classical.
(c) Country.
(d) Electronic.

Short Answer Questions

1. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?

2. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?

3. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?

4. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?

5. What is on the island in the middle of the artificial lake at Fangoso Lagoons?

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